I haven’t been able to locate a brick of .22’s in Texas in eighteen months. Only a few scattered 50 packs.
I read the American rifle piece and it’s BS.
I don’t want to write a whole article about why every single thing they say is illogical so lets just do one:
DHS is buying enough for every one of their employees to fir 1200 something rounds a year. I challenge you to find any police department that buys that much. Cops, or TSA, or “Social Security Police” for that matter are not “avid shooters” by in any means. They maintain a very basic qualification and it simply does not take 1200 rounds to maintain that level of proficiency. The article admits that the Army qualifies all their people in rifle marksmanship and CONDUCTS A WAR on about 300 per soldier.
OK one more. They break if out by department in the article and TSA (who doesn’t have any armed agents that I know of) uses exactly the SAME number of rounds, I don’t remember the number but it’s like 2 million or something per year for OPERATIONAL use. Exactly the same number every year and somehow the newspapers fail to mention TSA getting into HUGE firefights that burn giant but exactly predictable amounts of ammo every year. BS
Bottom line even if they really are using that much ammo and not just stockpiling it for whatever they have planned, the gestapo has gotten out of hand.
CDNN had bricks of Philippine .22lr a few weeks ago. I bought two at more than $.10 per round just to have some. Good ammo though ...